iForce - Sublime text plugin for salesforce development.

I wrote a small plugin for sublime text to develop salesforce. I’m glad to share one of my idea to project execution.

My recent project was developing a mobile app (jquery mobile) for salesforce. I find it is tedious to use eclipse/Force IDE for modifying single APEX page, the rich-text editor with syntax highlighting provided by salesforce web interface is not very helpful.

As “productive” developer I was looking for other options, I found ForceDotBundle for textmate and Mavenmate for Sublime text.

I settled with ForceDotBundle atlast, as I figured I don’t need all the features of Mavenmate. I could not recommend any to my fellow teammates, who use Windows as their primary development machine. As far as I know there is no real alternate to Eclipse/ForceIDE for Windows users.

So I saw an opportunity to learn to develop sublimetext plugin. My initial feature set were